"Oh, that was amazing!" Remus was giggling along with James and Peter, over their prank in the great hall. The sorting was over and all his friends were with him in Gryffindor, what were the chances?!

Sirius sat stiffly with a strained smile on his face. He could see his cousins' sneers over at the Slytherin table, Bella's was the hardest. He could feel the resentment coming from his family. Bella mouthed a few choice words and he knew, he just knew, that she had already sent a note to his dear mummy.

Remus sobered when he saw Sirius tense. James and Peter were talking between themselves, still chuckling at the events of the day. He looked around to see if people were leaving the room and saw that, yes, they were. He stood up abruptly and tugged on Sirius' sleeve from next him. Sirius looked up at him with slightly manic eyes. The lycanthrope pulled on his friend's sleeve a bit harder and rose his eyebrows, trying to make it subtly apparent that he wanted to talk.

Sirius face cleared of his confusion and nodded slightly, then stood and walked with Remus out of the hall and outside into a courtyard. They sat down in a corner, a bush unintentionally concealing them from view. "What's wrong, Sirius?"

"It's not important."

"It seems like it's really bothering you so, yes, it is important."

Sirius closed his eyes and leant his head back against the stone wall behind him. It was warm, thrumming with magic, "Can I tell you another time?"

Remus sighed, "Of course." Sirius let out a breath of relief. Remus made a quick decision and let his head loll towards the other boy, "Betcha I can find where the tower is before you…" A smirk fell onto Remus' face.

Sirius chuckled, "Five knuts?" Remus nodded, "I bet you can't, and we'll both get lost."

Remus smirk grew, "That's the fun, right?" Sirius laughed and pushed himself up, then waited for his new friend to stand as well. Sirius had quite forgotten his troubles by now.

"After three?"

"Yup… One, two, THREE!" They raced off towards different staircases in the hopes of it being the correct one, "We need a map!" Sirius called from the staircase he stood upon while waiting for it to stop moving.

"Let's make it, we'll get the others to help!" Remus, from his own, responded. He could faintly make out Sirius nodding before each staircase clunked into position and the two friends were off again.

Sirius won in the end, Remus having turned up at the Ravenclaw tower and therefore needing directions back towards his own common room, where James and Peter had been waiting for them just outside the painting to tell them the password in.

Up in the dorm, Peter was left with the bed closest to the bathroom, with Remus at the window, then Sirius, then James right next to the door. Once his bed had been chosen, James reached into his trunk, which sat at the end of his bed, and pulled out a pack of muggle playing cards, a small rubber ball, and what looked like a tiny record player that fit snuggly in James' palm. James tapped the small device once with his wand making it expand to normal size, then placed the player on the bed. He pulled out another few items from his trunk, all thick pieces of card around eight by eight inches with decorative pictures and photos on the front. Sirius watched all this with interest and walked over to James, he sat on the bed facing the messy haired boy. The grey-eyed boy pulled the nearest piece of card towards him and picked it up, it was surprisingly heavy and held a circle of metal inside.

James lifted the cover of the player and slipped out one of the circles from its case. The youngest Potter placed it carefully on the record player, then pressed a button on side. Sirius nearly fell off the bed in shock as the large red box started playing music, the chords of a bass guitar played and then the lyrics, 'Gold coast slave ship bound for New Orleans' sung by a man's voice.

James grinned and looked up at the other boys, "Brown sugar. It's by The Rolling Stones, really new! I begged ma to take me to the music shop in the muggle town Potter Manor was near at the time and I got this!"

Sirius sat dumbfounded for most of the song but by the end he had jumped up and pulled James up with him and danced around in circles with him, belting out his own made up lyrics in time to the beat. Remus and Peter were soon jumping around with the two black-haired boys. When the song ended, James simply put another record on and they continued.

Once they got tired, they collapsed collectively on Sirius' bed and Remus taught the others how to play rummy which he learnt from his mum with James' deck of cards. They dealt a few games of that with the records playing in the background, James jumping up to change them every now and then.

When it was almost midnight, two identical ginger boys poked their heads round the door, and they spoke simultaneously, "Lights off! Night kiddies!" They winked and walked off.

Remus grinned, "See you guys in the morning!" with that the four boys scurried off to their own beds and slipped under covers, each heavily anticipating the morning to come.

Remus decided to ignore his parents and headmasters warning about friends. These boys seemed alright. They wouldn't know about his secret if he could help it.

The next morning, they had transfiguration with Professor McGonagall and the Slytherins first thing. James was rather excited, he wondered if he'd be brilliant at charms like his ma, or maybe defence like his dad, or maybe potions like his grandpa, Fleamont, or maybe transfiguration like his grandma, Dorea.

Once in the classroom, he sat down with Sirius at a desk in the back, with Remus next to him and then Peter. The austere woman who had read out their names at the feast stood at the front of the room. She had her hair tied back into a tight bun, dark green robes and a black hat on her head.

"Good morning, class. Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts. Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back." She peered at the class over her spectacles, "Understood?" The class nodded tightly. "Good. Today we shall start with transfiguring a match into a needle. Do not fret if you do not get it first try, or even today. This is your first lesson. We shall be taking notes first though."

By the end of the lesson, Peter struggled to achieve any change on his needle but he claimed it was slightly greyer than before, Remus managed to make his match pointy, Sirius ended with a silver match, and James had a slightly blunt needle. McGonagall had been impressed with the three of them, James especially, and gave them five house points each.

After that lesson, they had charms, then potions, which Remus was terrible at, then herbology, and finally history, which everyone found tedious so Sirius decided to take matters into his own hands, and spice things up a bit.

He pulled out the 'borrowed' strange yet harmless plant they had learnt about in herbology that day, and squirted the purple juice it released into the girls' hair and down the boys' backs. Professor Binns hadn't even noticed that one of the children had got up until he heard shrieking from behind him.

Sirius got house points deducted but as it was the first day, no detention.

Back at the common room, Sirius caught sight of the red-haired girl he had talked to on the train, she was sat on an armchair in front of the fire, chatting with three friends. Lucy, was it? No… Lizzy? Not quite… Lily! That was it. He walked over to her and said, "Hiya Lily!" He grinned down at her, and she looked up and smiled.

"Hello Sirius! How're you?"

"Good, you?" she nodded, "Isn't strange how everyone I talked to on the train got into Gryffindor?"

"Yeah I guess so. These are my friends," she pointed to each in turn, "Marlene," a girl with wavy blonde hair smiled, "Emmeline," Emmeline had brown hair and huge, blue eyes, "And Alice," she had long black hair tied into a pony tail and a round, sweet face. "Where are your friends?"

Sirius turned around and called for all of his friends to come over and they sat down with the girls.

"Hi, I'm Remus!" Remus smiled at her and held out a hand to shake and she grasped it firmly.

"Hallo! I'm Peter." He pointed at himself and Lily grinned at him.

There was a pause. James was staring at Lily, already quite smitten. Remus nudged James in the ribs
"Oh! I'm James Potter…"

Lily rose her eyebrows at him and smiled hesitantly, "…Lovely to meet you." Peter, Sirius and Remus chuckled.

Sirius started a conversation with Lily while Remus and Peter sat and talked to the other girls about their first day. James sat quietly off to the side, watching Lily. She was very pretty, and quite funny, he found when he listened to her conversation with Sirius. James nervously adjusted his glasses and ran a hand through her hair when she briefly met his eye. She had such lovely eyes, green but not murky or washed out like most peoples' green eyes, but vibrant and bright with so much life and curiosity behind them. He was enthralled.

The girl next to him, Marlene, said, "You ok? You look a little…" she waved her hands at her head, "out of it." She had a strong cockney accent and gesticulated wildly as she spoke.

He smiled at her and nodded, "Yeah, just lost in thought."

She leant in and whispered, "Looked a little more lost in Lily's eyes, to me!" she laughed loudly when James covered his face and blushed.

"Shut up!" James almost shouted. The others looked looked over at them in surprise, but Marlene simply grinned and James pushed her off the sofa with a small grin of his own. The others sniggered and conversation continued.

That night, Remus was sat with his legs bent up at the end of his bed, leant against the footboard doing his homework, Sirius lay on his back at Remus' feet throwing James' bouncy ball up and then catching it, James rested against Remus' headboard reading a quidditch magazine, and Peter sat next to James, half-reading the magazine over his shoulder.

Remus lifted his head from his book and looked around at his three new friends that he believed would someday be his best friends. Now, as long as they never found out, their friendship would last forever.

This took forever to get finished, and it's a really choppy end… I'm sorr-eee. (^_^)